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$xhtml = array(
	'<{title}>' => 'About finished for the week',
	'takedown' => '2017-11-01',
	'<{body}>' => <<<END
<img src="/img/CC_BY-SA_4.0/y.st./weblog/2018/07/16.jpg" alt="The path leading away from a grocery store" class="framed-centred-image" width="649" height="480"/>
<section id="drudgery">
	<h2>Drudgery</h2>
	<p>
		My discussion post for the day:
	</p>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			I find it scary that Plato thought his hypothetical society to be the most healthy one.
			First of all, the disinformation and censorship he proposed seems incredibly <strong>*unhealthy*</strong>m in my opinion.
			A society that falls apart if knowledge is allowed to roam seems diseased in a very big way.
			But also, Plato himself didn&apos;t believe his society could hold up.
			It&apos;d deteriorate, if created.
			What this tells us is that the most healthy state imaginable, if we believe the imagined state to even be such, is too sickly to maintain itself.
			The most healthy state is very unhealthy.
			In other words, all states are unhealthy and no healthy state can truly exist, if we listen to Plato.
		</p>
		<p>
			It&apos;s sad that people usually only look after themselves.
			Even on the rare occasion people seem to care, they usually only care about those directly around them, especially those closest to them.
			They&apos;d be hurt if these people were hurt, so we can conclude that this is still a form of selfishness and self-preservation.
			It&apos;s rare that peopel actually care for humanity as a whole.
		</p>
	</blockquote>
	<p>
		When I was grading today, I found one student had submitted a paper that was five blank pages, and one page with actual information.
		That information included one sentence about why they chose the topic they did, but the rest was a list of questions they meant to address but never did.
		What was that even about?
		I get that they didn&apos;t finish their assignment, but why even submit anything if they hadn&apos;t even really started?
		Maybe they saved their paper in multiple files, as it was at different stages, then uploaded the wrong one.
		In any case, they basically submitted nothing, so I had to give them a zero.
	</p>
	<p>
		I have finished everything.
		Almost.
		I still need a title for my paper for the week, but the paper itself has been written.
		I also have my discussion assignment to complete, but since the censorship began, I&apos;ve been intentionally dragging the discussion assignments out.
		Keeping on task has still been a bit difficult, but I&apos;ve been much better about it this week and last.
		Things seem to be looking up.
		Hopefully it stays that way.
	</p>
</section>
<section id="work">
	<h2>People really should listen to me ...</h2>
	<p>
		At work, the oven suddenly changed pitch.
		I alerted the head manager to it, and the fact that I couldn&apos;t see the flame in the oven any longer.
		I was worried about unconsumed gas leaking out more than anything, but I also knew if the flame was out, the oven would cool and our pizzas wouldn&apos;t get cooked.
		The boss wrote me off though.
	</p>
	<p>
		Later, our pizzas started coming out undercooked.
		If the boss had taken me seriously before the oven cooled, we could&apos;ve fixed the issue.
		Instead, they fixed it after I could verify that I&apos;d been right about the flame going out.
		If they&apos;d looked into it right away, and business was definitely slow enough at that point for them to do so, we&apos;d&apos;ve been fine.
		Instead, we were forced to keep pushing the pizzas back to give them more cook time in the under-heated oven, and we ran out of oven space.
		The head manager started up a second oven (we have three, but that late at night, we usually only have one switched on) before we could verify that the temperature of the first was going back up, just in case the fix didn&apos;t work, but they&apos;d marked that oven as inactive earlier by putting an upside-down pan on it.
		That was useful for having more space to push pizzas back in, but they forgot to remove the upside-down pan and it went through the oven on the conveyor.
		Being upside-down, the lip of the pan caught in one of the gaps in the belt and tore a good-sized hole, which then proceeded to catch elsewhere in the oven.
		Obviously, it was a mistake and mistakes happen.
		However, if the boss had just listened to me from the beginning, the first oven wouldn&apos;t&apos;ve cooled down, so the second oven wouldn&apos;tve been unexpectedly switched back on.
		The hole was torn in the belt because the manager wouldn&apos;t listen to me about the oven issues!
	</p>
</section>
END
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